Ison Slate

Ison Slate (slate.isonai.net) is the academic research workspace in the IsonAI family. Slate composes cited research reports by searching across 11 academic sources at once — including Indonesian sources rarely available in global tools.

Sources

OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, PubMed, arXiv, CrossRef, EuropePMC, DOAJ, BASE, and CORE — plus two key differentiators: Garuda (Indonesian journals) and BPS (official Indonesian statistics). For Indonesian topics, Slate surfaces far more SINTA-accredited local journals than international indexes do.

Capabilities

Cited reports with a numbered bibliography and DOI links.
Citation export in APA, MLA, Chicago, numeric, and BibTeX (for Zotero/Mendeley).
Journal-quality badges — SJR quartiles (Q1–Q4) for international journals, SINTA ranks (1–6) for Indonesian journals.
Consensus analysis — each paper is classified as supporting/contradicting/mixed relative to the research question.
Evidence synthesis — a narrative summary of where the bulk of the evidence points, along with divergent findings and methodological notes.
Follow-up Q&A that keeps citing the report's sources.
Multi-format Notebook — collect documents, web pages, YouTube videos with transcripts, audio, and images in one workspace; ask questions with openable page, section, slide, sheet, or timestamp citations.
Notebook sources — PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OpenDocument, RTF, EPUB, text/tabular files, common audio, and common images up to 50 MB per file, plus web URLs and YouTube.
Studio — create source-grounded summaries, mind maps, slide decks, infographics, data tables, flashcards, FAQs, quizzes, study guides, timelines, and suggested questions.
Notes and source selection — save notes and choose the specific sources that may be used for one question.
Library — save and search reports and Notebooks, group reports into collections, share by link, and continue or revise research.
Public Notebook links — publish a revocable read-only view; private chat history and original source files are not included.

How to use it

Open slate.isonai.net and sign in with your IsonAI account.
Write a research title or question.
Choose a depth: Quick (± 500 words), Standard (± 1,500 words), or Deep (3,000+ words).
Via Advanced: report language (Indonesian/English), audience (academic/policy/general), citation style.
"Open full setup →" for the full configuration — including selecting up to 10 grounding sources ("Find academic sources"), uploading PDF/DOCX/text (up to 25 MB per file), or pasting URLs, arXiv IDs, and DOIs.
Press "Begin Research".

To use Notebook, choose Notebook in Slate, create a workspace, then upload files or add a URL/YouTube source. Once sources are ready, use Chat for cited questions or Studio for generated artifacts. You can select specific sources before sending a question. The Notebook, Notes, sources, chat, and artifacts are saved to your account and can be reopened from Library.

Slate vs Deep Research

Slate: full academic reports — journals, quality badges, BibTeX. For literature reviews, undergraduate/graduate theses, policy briefs.
Deep Research: deep-diving a topic from general web sources, right in the chat conversation.

Slate does not import chat conversations automatically; distill your discussion into a single research question (you can ask IsonAI to summarize it), or upload the summary as a grounding source.

Quota

Slate has daily usage limits per research depth based on your account plan; the limits are shown in the interface. Slate runs on the Omni tier.

Limits

Coverage depends on the academic source indexes; paywalled articles are reachable only through their metadata and abstracts.
A YouTube video must have an accessible transcript. Audio transcription and image understanding depend on source quality.
Notebook does not create Audio Overviews.
Direct email invitations with viewer/editor roles are currently disabled. Notebook sharing currently uses a revocable public read-only link.

Last verified: 2026-09-01